About the Authors

Gunjan Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Gunjan Sharma, Rakesh Tamang, Ruchira Chaudhary

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Government Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya, Bhopal, India

Rakesh Tamang

Contributed equally to this work with: Gunjan Sharma, Rakesh Tamang, Ruchira Chaudhary

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Ruchira Chaudhary

Contributed equally to this work with: Gunjan Sharma, Rakesh Tamang, Ruchira Chaudhary

thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT); ruchira_2006@yahoo.co.in (RC)

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Government Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya, Bhopal, India

Vipin Kumar Singh

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Anish M. Shah

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Sharath Anugula

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Deepa Selvi Rani

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Alla G. Reddy

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Muthukrishnan Eaaswarkhanth

Current address: Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Gyaneshwer Chaubey

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Lalji Singh

Affiliations CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, Genome Foundation, Hyderabad, India, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Kumarasamy Thangaraj

thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT); ruchira_2006@yahoo.co.in (RC)

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS LS RC KT. Performed the experiments: GS RC RT VKS SA DSR AGR KT. Analyzed the data: KT RC GS RT GC AMS ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGR KT. Wrote the paper: GS RT RC GC KT.